President Trump has decided not to release the names of White House visitors.

Judicial Watch, a very conservative legal watchdog group, was among the organizations critical of Trump's decision not to release White House visitor logs.

“This new secrecy policy undermines the rule of law and suggests this White House doesn’t want to be accountable to the American people,” the group's president, Tom Fitton, said in a statement. . . . .

“The only excuse for this policy is that the Trump administration has something to hide,” said David Donnelly, president and chief executive of Every Voice. “This kind of secrecy will allow big donors, lobbyists and special interests to have unknown levels of influence in the White House.”

“It's the exact opposite of 'draining the swamp,' " Donnelly added, referring to Trump's pledge to usher in a more ethical and less corrupt era in Washington.